Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum [audio]

Re:Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum [a... by fnord123 on Thursday February 23, 2017 @08:16AM (#13713549)

You type in 'sudo apt-get install build-essentials' and you have it. I don't what the process on Windows these days but you used to have to find visual studio install media, install it, and reboot two or three times.

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Re:Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum [a... by dagw on Thursday February 23, 2017 @10:13AM (#13714479)

I don't what the process on Windows these days

1) Go to visualstudio.com

2) click Downloads

if you want the full IDE:

3) choose between downloading free version of a trial of the professional version

if you just want the command line tools

3) scroll down until you find C++ Build Tools and download that

4) double click the file you just downloaded.

5) Done

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Re:Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum [a... by dragonwriter on Thursday February 23, 2017 @11:23AM (#13715105)

Yeah, visual studio now installs decently.

Uninstall or upgrade is still a nightmare, but installing it on a PC which has never had it isn't bad.

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Re:Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum [a... by fnord123 on Thursday February 23, 2017 @10:40AM (#13714727)

No more reboots?

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Re:Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum [a... by dagw on Friday February 24, 2017 @03:16AM (#13721975)

Not that I can recall, at least not on Windows 10.

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Re:Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum [a... by cgravill on Thursday February 23, 2017 @11:19AM (#13715081)

It'd be great to have it built-in but you can get https://chocolatey.org and MinGW pretty easily:

  iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex

restart prompt, then:

  choco install mingw

(no machine reboots, disclaimer: I work at MSR, nothing related to this)

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